Ports in Europe

The largest port in Europe for sixty years. Maasvlakte 2, reclaimed land opened in 2013, extended the port into the North Sea with...

Antwerp merged with Zeebrugge in 2022 to form Antwerp-Bruges, the second busiest port in Europe with about 12 million TEU. The Sch...

The largest port in Germany and the traditional gateway to Central and Eastern Europe. About 8 million TEU a year move by deep sea...

The overseas port of Bremen at the Weser mouth, a car export powerhouse handling well over a million vehicles a year alongside abo...

The ancient harbor of Athens, serving the city since the fifth century BC. COSCO investment from 2009 and majority control from 20...

The busiest container port of Spain and a Mediterranean leader. Valencia serves the industrial east coast and the Madrid hinterlan...

The Spanish port at the Strait of Gibraltar, a natural first and last call between the Atlantic and Mediterranean. About 5 million...

The leading container port of France at the Seine mouth, with the Port 2000 terminals opened in 2006. About 3 million TEU a year p...

The busiest container port in the United Kingdom, handling about 4 million TEU a year. Felixstowe pioneered British containerizati...

The Baltic success story of the 2010s, where the deepwater DCT terminal opened in 2007 and made Gdansk the hub for Poland and beyo...

The Arctic iron ore port of Norway, ice free all year thanks to a branch of the Gulf Stream. Ore trains have rolled down the Ofote...

The largest city inside the Arctic Circle and the largest Russian port in the Arctic, ice free year round thanks to the North Atla...

The main Russian port on the Black Sea, moving over 100 million tonnes a year of grain, crude, and containers. The notorious bora ...

The largest port on the Black Sea, handling around 90 million tonnes a year. The Danube Black Sea Canal, opened in 1984, links riv...

The great grain port of Ukraine, founded in 1794 as the Russian Empire window to the south. Odesa and nearby Pivdennyi shipped gra...

The busiest cruise port of the Mediterranean, moving about 3.5 million passengers a year across seven terminals. Barcelona pairs c...

The cruise port of Rome, about 70 kilometers northwest of the capital. Around 2.5 million passengers a year pass through on Medite...

The home of British cruising, moving over 2 million passengers a year. The Mayflower sailed from Southampton in 1620 and the Titan...

The medieval walled city cruise jewel of the Adriatic, receiving over a million passengers a year. Overtourism concerns led Croati...

The largest fishing port in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe by volume, landing white fish, pelagic species, an...

The fishing capital of Spain and often ranked the largest fishing port in Europe. The Galician hub lands, processes, and re export...

The heart of the Icelandic fishing economy, landing cod, haddock, and redfish for a nation built on seafood export. The old harbor...

The maritime republic that ruled East Mediterranean trade for five centuries. The Arsenal, the largest industrial complex in Europ...

The imperial harbor of Constantinople for sixteen centuries, commanding the trade gate between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...

The departure point of the Portuguese discoveries. Vasco da Gama sailed from Belem in 1497 to open the sea route to India, and spi...

Holder of the exclusive trade with Spanish America through the Casa de Contratacion from 1503, with treasure fleets officially bou...

The warehouse of the 1600s world economy. The Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602 and often called the first multinational c...

The cloth capital of medieval northern Europe at its 1300s peak, with Hanseatic merchants running a kontor and the term bourse bor...

The Hanseatic wharf of Bryggen, run by German merchants from about 1360, shipped dried cod stockfish from Arctic Norway to Catholi...

The queen of the Hanseatic League, the trading network that controlled northern seas from the 1300s. Lubeck law and Lubeck merchan...

The port of empire, by 1900 the busiest in the world. East Indiamen once queued in the Pool, then docks marched east to Tilbury. T...

The second port of empire and the British gateway to the Atlantic. Around nine million emigrants sailed for new worlds from its qu...

A transshipment hub on the Calabrian coast built in the 1970s for a steelworks that was never completed and converted to container...

Founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC as Massalia, Marseille has been the main French gateway to the Mediterranean ...

On the Swedish west coast at the mouth of the Gota alv, Gothenburg handles a large share of Swedish foreign trade in containers, c...

A Channel port whose fleet lands much of the French catch of herring, mackerel, and whitefish. The Capecure district is one of the...

Built by Claudius and expanded by Trajan with a hexagonal basin to replace the silting river harbor of Ostia. Grain ships from Egy...